The LSU-Tulane Center for Biomedical Research Excellence-Center for Experimental Infectious Disease Research was established in 2004 and has been funded by the National Institutes of Health, National Institute of General Medical Sciences with approximately $22 million from 2004-2015. After a national competition, the center has been funded with an additional $6 million from 2014-2019 for… Read More

LSU has appointed J. “Ram” Ramanujam director of its internationally-renowned Center for Computation & Technology, or CCT, effective May 1. Ramanujam is the John E. and Beatrice L. Ritter Distinguished Professor in the Division of Electrical and Computer Engineering in the School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at LSU. “We are happy to announce… Read More

Student application deadline March 21 BATON ROUGE – LSU’s Center for Computation & Technology, or CCT, has been selected to serve as a host organization for Google’s Summer of Code, as a result of efforts by the STE||AR, or Systems Technology, Emergent Parallelism and Algorithm Research, group. “Google’s decision to support our group recognizes the… Read More

LSU’s Digital Media Center will host a Global Game Jam, a worldwide competition where video game enthusiasts and developers form groups of programmers, game designers, artists and business-minded individuals to build and present a video game in 48 hours, on Jan. 24-26. “If you’ve ever said ‘What if there was a game like this’ then you… Read More

by Paige Brown Popular television shows such as “Doctor Who” have brought the idea of time travel into the vernacular of popular culture. But problem of time travel is even more complicated than one might think. LSU’s Mark Wilde has shown that it would theoretically be possible for time travelers to copy quantum data from… Read More

by Paige Brown LSU’s Seung-Jong Park, associate professor of computer science with joint appointment in the Center for Computation & Technology, or CCT, along with co-investigators Joel Tohline, Sean Robbins, Lonnie Leger, K. Gus Kousoulas and other senior LSU faculty, recently received an NSF grant of $947,860 for a campus-wide project aimed at bringing… Read More

Largest NSF Major Research Instrumentation, or MRI, grant the university has ever received Researchers at the LSU Center for Computation & Technology, or CCT, have received a $4 million Major Research Instrumentation, or MRI, award from the National Science Foundation, or NSF, for the acquisition of SuperMIC, a new supercomputer cluster. This is the… Read More

According to the 2012 Smartphone Usage Statistics Report, there are more than 91 million smartphones in the United States, and the average person uses their mobile device to download an average of 48 apps per month. LSU’s Center for Computation & Technology, or CCT, will hold the third annual iOS App Boot Camp on Aug. 5-15, from 9… Read More

The 2013 Atlantic Hurricane Season began June 1, and it’s expected to be an exceptionally busy year. There are tools, however, that can help mitigate a hurricane’s impact. Drawing on the resources of LSU’s Center for Computation & Technology, or CCT, scientists at the LSU School of the Coast & Environment have developed the Coastal… Read More